secp256k1 wrapped with cffi to use with python
Project description
Bitcoin secp256k1 C library wrapped with CFFI to use with Python2 and PyPy2.
Benchmarks
These results are achieved on an Intel Core i5-4200U CPU @ 1.6GHz:
cffi took: 0.75secs / 74μs per op / 13391 signs per sec cffi took: 1.09secs / 109μs per op / 9170 recovers per sec
Usage
This library offers sign, recover and verify from the secp256k1 bitcoin lib used like this:
sig = ecdsa_sign_raw(msg32, seckey) pubkey = ecdsa_recover_raw(msg32, sig) ecdsa_verify_raw(msg32, sig, pubkey)
Dependencies
On Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libffi-dev libtool
Installation
Clone repo:
git clone https://github.com/czepluch/pysecp256k1.git
Install
To install package:
python setup.py install
Development
To install:
python setup.py develop
Test
To test and install test dependenceis:
python setup.py test
Generate source & binary pakacages
To generate installable source and binary packages:
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
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